ZTE U960 ROM Discussion

I tried the B10, B12 and B13 based ROMs,I tried even a turbosim clone, and I tried replacing the android radio and SIM related libs with the ones taken from the Gsmart from gigabyte, and other single SIM phones.

Using the libs from a single SIM phone, the second SIM became (unsurprisingly) inactive, but the first one wasn't fixed (worked with 64k only).

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Dear The Solutor
I'm following this thread, like many other, I'm interested on the U960. Since you seem to have experience with different U960 ROMs, I hope you don't mind answering my questions:
- Does any of those ROMs provides multi-language support? Like seen at etotalk, by the way they sell it for US$99,99
- Are they stable enough?
- Which ROM you can say is the best one?

Your answer would help me to evaluate if I'd rather buy from etotalk (I asume that I will get support and multilanguage Rom), or buying from a taobao agent (about $120 cheaper but no support and chinese ROM)

Dear The Solutor
I'm following this thread, like many other, I'm interested on the U960. Since you seem to have experience with different U960 ROMs, I hope you don't mind answering my questions:
- Does any of those ROMs provides multi-language support? Like seen at etotalk, by the way they sell it for US$99,99

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I don't know what they intend with multilingual, they sent me what they call 1.2 rom and is just a rom cleaned from Chinese apps ADW launcher preinstalled (which is more than enough for most users), I doubt they have a fully multilingual ROM available, but I could be wrong.

- Are they stable enough?

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The ROMs are stable, with few minor glitches (B08, B10 and B12 have the TTS menu missing and not working for example) but this is true for any recently released phone, no matter if a cheap chinese clone or an iphone or a good brand phone.

- Which ROM you can say is the best one?

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Right now I'm using a my own ROM, based on B13.

Your answer would help me to evaluate if I'd rather buy from etotalk (I asume that I will get support and multilanguage Rom), or buying from a taobao agent (about $120 cheaper but no support and chinese ROM)

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I bought the phone in Italy because another user sold it (he was not too skilled with android things, so he was unable to root the phone and to install the market), the support from etotalk is average to say the best, they always start with a bunch of questions unrelated with the problem you have, with just one or two mail per day, so a lot of patience is needed if you have a problem bigger than normal.

In my case they started to seriously cooperate only when they realized I'm a well known user, and only when realized that fix that issue is more important for them than for me, frankly if you are reasonably skilled, the price delta is big enough, and you have a trusted taobao agent, is better to go with the latter.

The standard locale is set to IT and the timezone is set to central Europe (just set your preference during the initial wizard, if you are living in a different nation/timezone)

The Chinese apps should be all removed, and the cracked SW is removed too (sorry )

In the 7z file is also present the recovery and the updated baseband (you can update it, but is not mandatory, nor suggested to newbies).

I added the nexus one animation, and replaced the absurd Chinese ringtones with something more standard and more international (Please check your ringtones/alert settings after the initial configuration).

Keep in mind that installing that ROM will wipe your phone, so backup your data and preferences with titanium backup before updating.

Keep also in mind that I don't have the time (and the will) to support that ROM, consider it a one time gift, but I don't want to be the unoffical ZTE support.

for example for checking the balance *102# and SIM1 call
then it returns
CONNECTON PROBLEM OR INVALID MMI CODE
on SIM2 working ok
i try to switch the SIM places
the same situation SIM1 can not accept USSD
SIM2 can

for example for checking the balance *102# and SIM1 call
then it returns
CONNECTON PROBLEM OR INVALID MMI CODE
on SIM2 working ok
i try to switch the SIM places
the same situation SIM1 can not accept USSD
SIM2 can

who have similar problem ?

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Yes I can confirm. Same problem here.

To be precise the USSD command is accepted and sent, but the reply is not interpreted correctly, so I can (blindly) manage my sim, but you can't check your billing.

Problems with USSD codes and STK are common on phones where the GSM is a second class citizen.

For example my droid 2 global (cdma/gsm) has the same problem with the stock rom, the droid 3 (also cdma/gsm) had the USSD codes working but the STK not enabled.

and any way to solve it ?

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Looking at the rom (because the problem with 128K SIMs) I can say that the SIM2 is managed mostly like on other monosim Android phones, while the SIM1 is managed mostly by the baseband SW and interfaced to Android trough the proprietary libzteril.so.

Even the network naming is different.

Vodafone Italy Is interpreted as "Vodafone IT" on SIM 1 and as "Vodafone Omnitel NV" or "Vodafone Omnitel NV 3G" on SIM2.

The first name is embedded on the baseband, the second one comes from an android library.

So is not that easy to do something unless you are the super hacker who understand the machine code better than his national language.

The standard locale is set to IT and the timezone is set to central Europe (just set your preference during the initial wizard, if you are living in a different nation/timezone)

The Chinese apps should be all removed, and the cracked SW is removed too (sorry )

In the 7z file is also present the recovery and the updated baseband (you can update it, but is not mandatory, nor suggested to newbies).

I added the nexus one animation, and replaced the absurd Chinese ringtones with something more standard and more international (Please check your ringtones/alert settings after the initial configuration).

Keep in mind that installing that ROM will wipe your phone, so backup your data and preferences with titanium backup before updating.

Keep also in mind that I don't have the time (and the will) to support that ROM, consider it a one time gift, but I don't want to be the unoffical ZTE support.

Thanks.

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I installed this firmware. It's amazing, thank you! But I have one issue - cannot send sms from simcard that is installed to SIM1

Did you buy this phone from etotalk? Because I want to buy one to try. Does this phone have problems on the sim2? I asked etotalk today, and they said there is no problem, but only Italy network vodafone is not working normally. I am using T-mobile. Will cause any connection problems?

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Yes, I bought my phone in etotalk store.
As it was written on previous pages. That phone has some problems with 128k simcards. Additionally all problems that I have should be because of errors in ROM. With etotalk rom v1.3 I didn't have any problems with sending sms via sim1 or sim2. Only on v1.4 this issue persists.
Right now I'm waiting an answer from etotalk support. Really hope that will receive it quickly.